Adult literacy campaign, Gold Coast. A student teacher helps a man to read from a board propped up against the base of a tree during a literacy class: part of a mass literacy campaign launched by the British government in 1951 to improve literacy skills amongst African adults, both in their own languages and in English. Northern Territories, Gold Coast (Northern Ghana), circa 1951., North (Ghana), Ghana, Western Africa, Africa.
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Adult literacy campaign, Gold Coast. A student teacher helps a man to read from a board propped up against the base of a tree during a literacy class: part of a mass literacy campaign launched by the British government in 1951 to improve literacy skills amongst African adults, both in their own languages and in English. Northern Territories, Gold Coast (Northern Ghana), circa 1951., North (Ghana), Ghana, Western Africa, Africa.

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Sign Pointing Reading Education health and welfare Development work Dress and adornment Traditional non-Western Dress and adornment Men's North (Ghana) Ghana Western Africa Africa

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